Edward Murray Wrong

Edward Murray Wrong (14 April 1889 – 15 February 1928) was a Canadian-born historian, Vice-President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1924–25).[1][2]

Edward Murray Wrong c. 1910

Biography

Known as Murray, he was the son of Canadian historian George MacKinnon Wrong, and of Sophia Hume Wrong, daughter of the politician Edward Blake. He was the brother of diplomat Humphrey Hume Wrong. Like all his siblings and his father, Wrong was educated at the University of Toronto. He then proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford as a commoner, where he was tutored by A. L. Smith, and obtained first-class honours in Modern History in 1913.

In 1914 he was elected to a fellowship by examination at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming the college's first Canadian fellow, and in 1915 he was elected to the Beit Prize in Colonial History. Having been turned down for military service for health reasons, Wrong served as Vice-Principal of the Manchester School of Technology between 1916 and 1919, when he was elected an official fellow and tutor of Magdalen.

Family

In 1915 Wrong married Rosalind Grace Smith, sixth daughter of A. L. Smith, his old tutor and Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They had two sons and four daughters. Among his children were the historian Rosalind Mitchison and medical scientist Oliver Wrong. His daughter Elizabeth Catherine Wrong married the Labour politician Peter Shore.

The British journalist Michela Wrong is his grand-daughter.

References
  1. E. M. Wrong. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 16, 1928; p. 19; Issue 44818. (1185 words)
  2. ‘WRONG, Edward Murray’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 8 May 2014
  • "Wrong, Edward Murray". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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